Buggy code:
public class JMeterTest extends JMeterTestCase { private static Logger log = LoggingManager . getLoggerForClass ( ) ; private static Map guiTitles ; private static Map funcTitles ; public JMeterTest ( String name ) { } private TestElement testItem ; public JMeterTest ( String testName , TestElement te ) { } private Serializable serObj ; public JMeterTest ( String testName , Serializable ser ) { } private JMeterGUIComponent guiItem ; public JMeterTest ( String testName , JMeterGUIComponent gc ) { } private Function funcItem ; public JMeterTest ( String testName , Function fi ) { } public static Test suite ( ) throws Exception { } public void createTitleSet ( ) throws Exception { } public void createFunctionSet ( ) throws Exception { } private int scanprintMap ( Map m , String t ) { } public void checkGuiSet ( ) throws Exception { } public void checkFunctionSet ( ) throws Exception { } private static Test suiteGUIComponents ( ) throws Exception { } private static Test suiteFunctions ( ) throws Exception { } private static Test suiteBeanComponents ( ) throws Exception { } public void runGUITitle ( ) throws Exception { } public void runFunction ( ) throws Exception { } public void runFunction2 ( ) throws Exception { } public void GUIComponents1 ( ) throws Exception { } public void GUIComponents2 ( ) throws Exception { } private static Test suiteSerializableElements ( ) throws Exception { } public void runSerialTest ( ) throws Exception { } private static Test suiteTestElements ( ) throws Exception { } public void runTestElement ( ) throws Exception { } private static Collection getObjects ( Class extendsClass ) throws Exception { String exName = extendsClass . getName ( ) ; <START_BUG> Object myThis = new String ( ) ; <END_BUG> Iterator classes = ClassFinder . findClassesThatExtend ( JMeterUtils . getSearchPaths ( ) , new Class [ ] { extendsClass } ) . iterator ( ) ; List objects = new LinkedList ( ) ; String n = "" ; boolean caughtError = true ; Throwable caught = null ; try { while ( classes . hasNext ( ) ) { n = ( ( String ) ( classes . next ( ) ) ) ; if ( n . endsWith ( "RemoteJMeterEngineImpl" ) ) { continue ; } Class c = Class . forName ( n ) ; try { try { objects . add ( c . newInstance ( ) ) ; } catch ( InstantiationException e ) { caught = e ; try { objects . add ( c . getConstructor ( new Class [ ] { Object . class } ) . newInstance ( new Object [ ] { myThis } ) ) ; } catch ( NoSuchMethodException f ) { System . out . println ( ( ( ( "WARN:<seq2seq4repair_space>" + exName ) + ":<seq2seq4repair_space>NoSuchMethodException<seq2seq4repair_space>" ) + n ) ) ; } } } catch ( NoClassDefFoundError e ) { System . out . println ( ( ( ( "WARN:<seq2seq4repair_space>" + exName ) + ":<seq2seq4repair_space>NoClassDefFoundError<seq2seq4repair_space>" ) + n ) ) ; } catch ( IllegalAccessException e ) { caught = e ; System . out . println ( ( ( ( "WARN:<seq2seq4repair_space>" + exName ) + ":<seq2seq4repair_space>IllegalAccessException<seq2seq4repair_space>" ) + n ) ) ; } catch ( Exception e ) { caught = e ; if ( ( e instanceof RemoteException ) || ( e . getClass ( ) . getName ( ) . equals ( "java.awt.HeadlessException" ) ) ) { System . out . println ( ( ( ( ( "WARN:<seq2seq4repair_space>" + "Error<seq2seq4repair_space>creating<seq2seq4repair_space>" ) + n ) + "<seq2seq4repair_space>" ) + ( e . toString ( ) ) ) ) ; } else { throw new Exception ( ( ( ( "Error<seq2seq4repair_space>creating<seq2seq4repair_space>" + n ) + "<seq2seq4repair_space>" ) + ( e . toString ( ) ) ) ) ; } } } caughtError = false ; } finally { if ( caughtError ) { System . out . println ( ( "Last<seq2seq4repair_space>class=" + n ) ) ; System . out . println ( ( "objects.size=" + ( objects . size ( ) ) ) ) ; System . out . println ( ( "Last<seq2seq4repair_space>error=" + caught ) ) ; } } if ( ( objects . size ( ) ) == 0 ) { System . out . println ( ( ( "No<seq2seq4repair_space>classes<seq2seq4repair_space>found<seq2seq4repair_space>that<seq2seq4repair_space>extend<seq2seq4repair_space>" + exName ) + ".<seq2seq4repair_space>Check<seq2seq4repair_space>the<seq2seq4repair_space>following:" ) ) ; System . out . println ( "Search<seq2seq4repair_space>paths<seq2seq4repair_space>are:" ) ; String [ ] ss = JMeterUtils . getSearchPaths ( ) ; for ( int i = 0 ; i < ( ss . length ) ; i ++ ) { System . out . println ( ss [ i ] ) ; } System . out . println ( "Class<seq2seq4repair_space>path<seq2seq4repair_space>is:" ) ; System . out . println ( System . getProperty ( "java.class.path" ) ) ; } return objects ; } private static void cloneTesting ( TestElement item , TestElement clonedItem ) { } private static void checkElementCloning ( TestElement item ) { } }

Fix:
Object myThis = "" ;